Whether she's almost wearing a black bikini or squeezing into a silver wet suit, Angelina Jolie looks great. And so do Greece, Hong Kong and a live volcano in Tanzania. Sadly, scenery can't save this blindingly dull sequel. Jolie puts on that posh Brit accent as Lara — Lady Croft to us swine — and thwarts a nutso scientist (Ciaron Hands) who wants to steal Pandora's box. Director Jan De Bont thinks the stunts will distract us from the cliched script; he thought the same about Speed 2. Gerard Butler, the Scottish hunk who'll play the lead in the film of Phantom of the Opera, does spark with Jolie. To no avail. Even sex can't save a film that produces instant narcolepsy.

“Alison”

On Elvis Costello’s country-tinged ballad, the lyric does not get too sentimental in recalling an ex who had since been with one of the singer's "little friends" and is now married. Some believe the song is about murder, due to lines like “Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking,” "Somebody better put out the big light" and, of course, "My aim is true,” which became the title of Costello's debut album. In 2002, Costello told Rolling Stone, “It isn’t [about murder]. It’s about disappointing somebody. It’s a thin line between love and hate, as the Persuaders sang.”